Federal election 2013: ABC Gold Coast

They've campaigned, rallied and kissed babies on the hustings, but have their efforts to get themselves over the line paid off? ABC Gold Coast will provide coverage of the five electorates in the region so you can get the results as they happen.

Forde is based in Logan City Council, south of Brisbane, but also includes some northern inland parts of the Gold Coast City Council.

Forde was thrust into centre stage of the campaign on August 8, when Labor replaced its low-profile candidate Des Hardman with someone of considerably greater stature, former Queensland premier Peter Beattie.

The federal division of McPherson stretches up from the southern state border to Burleigh and west to the hinterlands.

While McPherson has always been a conservative electorate, the growth of the Gold Coast has seen the electorate shrink dramatically in size, shifting from being a rural electorate to an entirely urban electorate as the boundaries contracted to cover just the southern Gold Coast.